fiacaill

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• fiacal

Etymology

From Old Irish fíacail. Cognate with Irish fiacail and Manx feeackle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiəxkɪʎ/

Noun

fiacaill f (genitive singular fiacla, plural fiaclan)

1. tooth

   Synonym: deud

2. cog (on a gear)
3. pin (of an electric plug)

Derived terms

• bruis-fhiaclan
• clàr-fhiacaill
• dà-fhiaclach
• fiacail fhuadain
• fiacaill-carbaid
• fiacaill-crìche
• fiacaill-cùil
• fiacaill-forais
• fiacaill-goibhre
• fiacaill-leòmhainn

 

Mutation

Mutation of fiacaill

radical	lenition
fiacaill	fhiacaill

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “fiacaill”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíacail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language